Adrian Budgen from law firm Irwin Mitchell said: "If she were still alive today, June Hancock would be greatly honoured. June lost her own mother, Maie Gelder, to mesothelioma in 1982 and felt a great sense of injustice. She once said that the fight against Turner & Newall had extended her life, not realising the irony of those words. It was a true David -v- Goliath battle. June said, after winning her famous court case: 'It just shows that no matter how small you are, you can fight and no matter how big you are, you can lose.'"